depression

英 [dɪ'preʃn] 美 [dɪ'preʃn]

• n. 沮丧；萧条

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U][C]忧伤,消沉,沮丧

   a feeling of sadness and hopelessness

2. [C]经济大萧条,不景气时期

   a long period of seriously reduced business activity and high unemployment

3. [C]凹陷,洼地

   a part of a surface lower than the other parts

4. [C]低气压(地区)

   an area where the pressure of the air is low in the ground

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 沮丧，消沉，意气消沈，不振
2. 洼地，凹地，凹洼，沉降地
3. 压低，降低
4. 不景气，萧条
5. 【气】低气压，气压降低
6. 陷落
7. 下沉
8. 抑郁症
9. 精神忧郁

英英释义

Noun:

1. a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

2. a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

3. a sunken or depressed geological formation

4. sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

5. a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

6. an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation;

   "a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow"
   

7. a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

8. a concavity in a surface produced by pressing;

   "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud"
   

9. angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

10. pushing down;

    "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
    

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He suffers from acute depression.
   他患有严重的抑郁症。
2. He committed suicide during a fit of depression.
   他一时想不开，自杀了。
3. Many people were idle during the depression.
   在那萧条时期，很多人都无事可做。
4. Roughly speaking, I think we are heading for the depression.
   大体说来,我认为我们正走向萧条。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. He suffers from acute depression.
   他患有严重的忧郁症。
2. Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.
   商业不景气常使劳工们受苦。
3. During the 1930's US experienced a great depression.30
   年代美国经历了一场大萧条时期。
4. The rain collected in several depressions on the ground.
   地面上好几处凹陷的地方都积了雨水。
5. A depression over the Atlantic usually brings bad weather in Britain.
   大西洋上空的低气压通常给英国带来恶劣的天气。

经典引文

• In a state of deep depression, overmastered by those distasteful miserable memories.

  出自： George Eliot

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• avoid depression 避免萧条
• experience depression 经历萧条

词义辨析

despair，desperation，depression，disappointment

• 这些名词都有“绝望、沮丧”之意。
• despair普通用词，指因灾难等因素而丧失希望和信心，陷入沮丧，绝望的境地。
• desperation语气强烈，指因绝望而使人采取无所顾忌的疯狂行动。
• depression侧重指因遭受重大失利或挫折而产生的低落情绪。
• disappointment多指愿望或期望的落空。

近反义词

【近义词】

• hollow
• recession

【反义词】

• cheerfulness
• gladness